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Play classic game The Oregon Trail for free on your browser

Hitch up your wagon and hit up the general store for supplies because it's time to head out on The Oregon Trail. A collection of more than 2,300 MS-DOS computer programs and games has been made available for free on The Internet Archive, a non-profit library of digital content and programs.

The 1990 MECC version of The Oregon Trail, where players face various trials and tribulations while trying to make it from east to west, is among them. The popular game was often used in schools to teach geography and history. It's currently the top-viewed game on the archive with more than 170,000 clicks. (The 1992 version is also in the archive and has more than 37,000 views.)

Other games in the collection include early versions of Super Solvers, Leisure Suit Larry, Donkey Kong, Prince of Persia, Sim City, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Street Fighter.

Users can play the games on modern computer browsers. However, there may be a few glitches here and there.

"I really worked hard to have only fully-functioning programs up," the Internet Archive's historian Jason Scott wrote on his blog. "Some of them will still fall over and die, and many of them might be weird to play in a browser window." He asks users to share their feedback via the "feedback button" in the archives.

Here are a few tweets from some people trying to make the journey safely to Oregon: